Abstract
The conflict in Afghanistan is over a decade long, yet the literature surrounding the strategies of the Taliban is distinctly lacking. A few scholars, analysts and former military personnel have dedicated chapters ...

Motivated by the desire to see a world living up to the ideal of harmonious multicultural communities, this thesis critically assesses two contemporary approaches to multiculturalism, namely Liberalism 1 and 2. The central ...

The aim of this research was to provide an overview and analysis of digital local studies
content in Irish public libraries today. There were five objectives: to provide an overview
of the content including the formats; ...

This paper retraces and analyses the development of British economic intelligence at the end of World War II. It will be argued that the re-organisation of the economic intelligence apparatus taking place in 1944 and 1945 ...

'Progress'. A comforting and familiar term. 'Progress', it seems, speaks to us all. Yet those who have endeavoured to offer a more precise definition have tended to find their quest frustrating. Does 'progress' represent ...

This thesis has made advances in Distributed Self-Healing Security Systems (DSHSS) -- a tool for the future to defend against the problems faced by industrial automation computer networks, such as critical national ...

Picardie, Michael(Aberystwyth UniversityTheatre, Film and Television Studies, 2009)

It is hypothesised and corroborated that there is a positive aesthetic interaction between the emotional pulse (Kristeva’s chora - what she calls the semiotic) and the actual symbolic meaning in the theatrical action ...

Early eighteenth-century politics were dominated by the rise to power and fall from grace of Sir Robert Walpole. This thesis examines varied responses to the Walpole regime from opposition Whig, Tory, Jacobite and ...

The aim of the study was to understand the ways in which young Indian women are
negotiating and managing their access to the Mumbai night time economy (M-NTE).
Through ethnographic fieldwork, which consisted of participant ...

The modern road novel is a genre that originated in the middle of the twentieth century, and
attained wide recognition with the publication of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road in 1957. The
roots of the genre, however, date ...

Designers of effective and efficient fuzzy systems have long recognised the value of
inferential hybridity in the implementation of sparse fuzzy rule based systems. Which
is to say: such systems should have recourse to ...

Considerable attention has been given to housing issues in the countryside over recent years. The 1980s and early 1990s have witnessed a whole host of academic publications, policy reports and media articles, with the focus ...

SUMMARY
The purpose of the research was to investigate the provision of e-books by Hampshire Libraries and Information Service (HLIS). The research aimed to explore the attitudes and experiences of front-line staff and ...

The purpose of the research was to investigate the provision of e-books by Hampshire Libraries and Information Service (HLIS). The research aimed to explore the attitudes and experiences of front-line staff and customers. ...

This dissertation aims to examine the usage of ebooks in academic libraries and their effects on both the library and its users. It investigates the influence they can have on library acquisition policies and procedures ...

This study aims at collecting empirical evidence on whether or not
financial accounting standards which exist in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia give
rise to economic consequences. Awareness of the potential economic
consequences ...

In this thesis I look at modernization theory and the relationship between economic development and political liberalization. I focus my analysis on China and I investigate a recent argument that seeks to explain why China's ...